“I thought when he jumped in, the sharks would scatter and he would get right out. Then I see the sharks coming for him and I kept screaming ‘Get out! Get out!’ because this was going to end not like we planned,” he said.

His friend was able to get out without a scratch.

McCloskey said he has not heard from the hotel and thus far there have been no repercussions.

Shark expert Dr. Samuel Gruber told Inside Edition that if a shark gets close to you: “You punch him in the snout, you grab his eyes, you grab his gills, you do whatever you can to frighten that shark.”